Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-13
WASHINGTON INVESTIGATION.
Charges Against the United States attorney
for the Western District OF Texas.

for the Western District OF TeXas.
BRENNAN, TEN, Marc 10, 1887.
To the Editor of the Gazette.
1t is strange, very strange, that Mr.. Il
Nleberg, United States District Attorney
for the Western District of Texas, has
seen fit TO act unfairly in the inVestiga-
ton Of the alleged frauds in Washington
county before the federal grand Jury at
Austin. We give him due credit for
pushing an investigation into these al
legged frauds; twas his duty 70 do SO, but
why must he become partizsn and wage
a partiZan WaI2 Why does he ask that
the H. torious and offensive partiZ8n,
Jack Evans, be appointed to assist him
in these prosecutions? BIs Mr. Evans real
" the only good lawyer in Texas 1t is
right to summon and examine witnesses
relative to the alleged frauds, but 1t is
rather strange that body OF fifteen or
twenty (mOstly negroes, OF the lowest
and 0itterest element of the sO-CalIed
Republican party of this county, are
maintained, and hive been for month
or so, as witnesses at Austin, and who
are there acting as spies and prosecutors
! (fOr I have seen them, while
other witnesses who know OF cases
! Oh lEduu duu luGlluIUdIIUu Ou Tue
part of the sO-Called Republicans were
quickly discharged by Mr., Kleberg, and
many of them without! being heard before
the grand jury.
! MANY charges of fraud and intimida-
! ton were reported to Mr.. kleberg by cit
! liens Of responsibility against some Of
| tae scalawags, and names of witnesses
were given him to prove the charges.
: how h.as, l11la
pmuaed Why have not these charges
they fully Investigated? While every
/ witness named is sUDpmnaed, and every
charge made investigated on one side, it
seems strange that there is no time 10
hear the charges from the other side
| Does Mr.. Kleberg imagine that he must
! DE partisan to prosecute, and partial and
unfair to punish crime? Is he afraid
Senator Hear and other Northern stran-
gers won't like it if he investigates Re
publican fraud: Certain grave charges Ct
political fraud and intimidation against a
so-c4lled Republican at the last election
was reported 10 Mr.. Keberg by a prom
inent citizen of Brennan, and. the name
of witnesses given. Ooly two or
| three of these Witnesses were INTRO
duCed before the grand jury, aud, Instead
of following up the line of testimony
which he had within his reach, to prove
the alleged fraud, preferred to submit the
! testimony Of witnesses who are partisans
of the person against whom cbarges had
! been made, and as consequence, caused
! the Indictment and arrest of the very par
! ties who were trying to prevent the
fraud, or rather one of them, the others
being nowhere near the place at the time.
Is this not partissnship? Who Is there
would fear, on account Of appearances,
to prosecute Republican or any other kind
of fraud? And shall we play false to our
friends to please puny and tickle senti-
ment Of strangers? If there was fraud
on both sides, why not investigate charges
made by both sides and prosecute with
vigor, but with fairness and impartiality;
Partisan prosecution is persecution, and
when prosecution becomes persecution il
is oppression. +. B. RANDLE'